Input Controls: Dimension, Measure, or Cross Calculation
Input controls give you the ability to change which dimensions or measures to display for your charts or tables.
Depending on which input control you create, you can either show a single selection or multiple selections. For charts, dimension and measure input controls allow only one selection, while Cross Calculation Input controls can be set up to display multiple cross calculation members. For tables, the measure input control can also display multiple cross calculation members.
When an input control is added to a story, it is added as a Page Filter.
The steps to create either a Dimension or Measure input control are quite similar.
Dimension | Measure |
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Select your chart.
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In Builder, beside Chart Structure, select
A Cross Calculations section is added with the default dimension Measure Values.
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In the Cross Calculations section, choose .
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In the New Cross Calculation Input Control dialog, select from the available cross calculations.
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Decide whether to use Single Selection or Multiple Selection.
If you want to see multiple selections in a chart, you need to also select the Cross Calculations dimension. (In the Dimensions section, select .)
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When finished, select OK.
The steps to create either a Dimension or Measure input control are quite similar. One difference is that measure input controls can be used with multiple cross calculations.
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There are two ways to change how members are displayed in a dimension input control: from the Builder panel you can set all dimensions to use the same display settings, or from the New Dimension Input Control you can set each dimension to use a different display setting.
If you customize the display values in the input control (or by using Edit Display Settings in the builder panel), you won't be able to apply the same display values to all dimensions until you Reset Display Settings.
Same display settings for all dimensions | Customized Display Settings |
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